NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A lawsuit filed last Friday has made sweeping claims of trade secret theft and fraud against Illumina, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Affymetrix, and individuals in the genomics industry.

Monib Zirvi of Weill Cornell Medicine; Matthew Lubin, now an internist but previously director of medical genetics at Strang Cancer Prevention Center; and Maria Kempe of Lund University filed the suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

This webinar will provide a comparison of several next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches — including short-read 16S, whole-genome sequencing (WGS), and synthetic long-read sequencing technology — for use in microbiome research studies.